How to Use upstart in a Sentence

upstart

noun

• Since then, Trump has sided with the upstart golf tour.
  — New York Times, 28 July 2022
• That’s all the Pats could generate against the upstart, rugged Fish.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2022
• It was meant to be the year Gen Z showed their bosses who was in charge—or young upstarts were put in their place.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
• The old guard will keep the upstart intimidated for at least a year.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2023
• The bluebloods have been banished in favor of the scrappy upstarts.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 28 Mar. 2023
• Close observers of the news here say the presence of the upstart has pushed all the outlets in town to up their journalistic games.
  — James Raineystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2023
• But those upstarts help keep Apple and Samsung on their toes.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
• But for now, many of those EV upstarts are also struggling to get gross margins into the black.
  — Kyle Stock, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
• The sport’s sloppiest upstart wouldn’t have it any other way.
  — Robert O’Connell, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2023
• But his agent, David Falk, and Jordan’s parents implored him to meet with the running-shoe upstart.
  — Obi Anyanwu, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2022
• By the end of 2022, the upstart was launching as many rockets each month as ULA launched during a calendar year.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2023
• By the standards of Bologna, Simona Scapin is a mortadella upstart.
  — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Sam Coffey — in her first match wearing the captain’s armband for the Thorns — was a force in the midfield, as was young upstart Olivia Moultrie.
  — oregonlive, 28 June 2023
• The National Football League propelled the plucky upstart sport of flag football into the Olympics.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
• Between the dominant-when-healthy veteran Michael Thomas and the upstart Chris Olave, there’s a lot of talent.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 6 Sep. 2023
• That’s what can happen when upstarts have a realistic chance to win you over.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
• The melodic scorcher racked up 15 million views on YouTube and created a buzz for the Florida upstart.
  — Tallie Spencer, Billboard, 13 July 2022
• An electric upstart picks Georgia for a truck, SUV and delivery van plant.
  — Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 14 May 2022
• Advertisement As for the Ravens and 49ers this season, their first tests come Saturday against a pair of upstarts.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• However, the Italians took kindly to this brash new upstart of a timepiece, and by 1994, there was a shortage in that market.
  — Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 5 July 2023
• Democrats have won the district every year since 2006 when a young upstart named Chris Murphy pulled off an upset against Johnson.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 6 Nov. 2022
• Shein is an online shopping upstart that sells its cut-price fast fashion apparel all over the world.
  — Juliana Liu, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
• The unit has struggled in recent years as upstarts, such as Dollar Shave Club and Harry’s, have entered the market with lower prices.
  — Natasha Khan, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
• The city boasts a handful of terrific legacy properties, but an upstart on the scene turned up two years ago with the Condado Ocean Club.
  — The Editors, Town & Country, 31 Jan. 2023
• Dr Pepper was the first in a wave of 19th-century upstart soda companies.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 28 Dec. 2022
• This allowed savvy upstarts—such as BuzzFeed—to take advantage of the cheap media and serve as middlemen.
  — Sam Venis, The New Republic, 30 July 2023
• The Lexus is the former upstart turned establishment player, the Genesis is the striver that can't trade on brand recognition, and the Benz is the longtime standard of the class.
  — Marc Urbano, Car and Driver, 21 Oct. 2022
• When Braddock shocks the boxing community by knocking out the upstart in three rounds, fate presents a path to a heavyweight title shot.
  — Michael Loynd, WSJ, 24 June 2022
• Little could anybody at the time imagine that the Salon would be forgotten while the ‘upstarts’ would fundamentally alter the course of art history.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• Weaver, 43, who worked as an assistant head coach and defensive line coach in Baltimore for the last three seasons, was ultimately picked out of a host of veteran defensive minds and upstarts.
  — Daniel Oyefusi, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024